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Codex of the Four

Of the many lower planer lords and masters who threaten the sanctity and safety of the prime material realms one of the most terrible and little known are the lords of Gehenna, the dreaded Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Created from the essence of pure evil unconcerned with law or chaos The Horsemen quietly allow the General of Gehenna to be seen as the only and primary lord of that hellish plane.

Origins
The Horsemen are said to have formed from the primal evils of the Multiverse, their terrible creation rending Gehenna and creating its dank canyons. As each arose so to did a terrible steed formed of evil, flame and poisonous volcanic smoke, the first Nightmares.

The Horsemen
The Four Horsemen represent each a hardship and harshness of the mortal realm as twisted and personified by pure evil. Each one appears as humanoid being astride a great Nightmare, both rider and steed embodying the Horseman and his aspect perfectly.

Death

War

Pestilence

Famine

Goals
The Goals of the Four Horsemen is nothing less then the destruction of entire prime material worlds. They are harbingers of the end of worlds and when they walk upon a prime material its end days are nigh. It is a small mercy that the four can not simply enter a world, no they must first gain power. To that end the four gather mortals of profane and vile mind, offering them power many mortals fall sway to the four and so are born Horsemen Cults.

Typically the horsemen seed a world with cults in differing locations and areas and encourage them to search the others out while spreading a swath of evil in their wake. The horsemen cults engage in acts of evil sometimes subtle sometimes overt that encourage and foster the evil designs of the four. Death, War, Pestilence and Famine are all results of the work of a Horsemen cult that empower the four. When enough such evil deeds are done the Horsemen enter the prime material to lead their cults in the destruction of world.

Servants
The Horsemens fiendish agents include any and all deamons and renegade demons and devils who lust for the decimation of mortal realms above the Blood War, Fallen Celestials and countless corrupted beings align with the four. Undead rise to serve their will and among mortals the Horsemen draw their faithful from among the worst of every race.

Weaknesses
The main weakness of the four is their inability to effect or enter a prime without large cults of their followers spreading their evil will. Beyond that it is unknown, never have any of the four been beaten. Only by vigilance and wariness for the wretched horsemen cults can worlds be spared the evils of the Four.